pion
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,208
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pion is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce du jeu d’échecs placée initialement sur la seconde rangée de l’échiquier dans chaque camp. Pronounced \pjɔ̃\. Often confused with Po and PN.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #16,208 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pion is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,208 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for pion, with forms such as "ipon", "pionn", and "poin". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Po", "PN", "pro", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pion, spelled P-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pièce du jeu d’échecs placée initialement sur la seconde rangée de l’échiquier dans chaque camp.
- 2Pièce de certains autres jeux, tels que les dames, othello, backgammon, etc…
- 3Petite tresse faite sur l’encolure d’un cheval avec les crins de sa crinière.
- 4Petite pièce cylindrique se positionnant dans un trou et servant de référence. Voir aussi simbleau, centreur, locating.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipon,pionn,poin,ppion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pion
Misspelling Variants of "pion"
Frequency rank: #16,208 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter P in our French index: